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...Hamas military-wing leader, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Ali, met TIME's Jamil Hamad in the early hours of Friday morning in an isolated village in the West Bank. Hamas is one of two major militant Islamic groups operating in the Palestinian territories and Israel. The other group, Islamic Jihad, has taken responsibility for last week's Jerusalem car bombing. The chain-smoking Abu Ali, in his mid-30s, described Hamas' strategy...
...southern edge of Jerusalem, and the nearby Palestinian town of Beit Jalla. For three weeks Palestinian gunmen in Beit Jalla have fired in the night toward Gilo. Last week Israel increased its response from rifle fire to tank shells and then helicopter missiles. One missile shattered the wall of Jamil Muslet's living room. It left a 5-ft. hole in the 200-year-old stone walls and shards of blue window glass on the floor. Looking across the steep, rocky valley to Gilo, less than a mile away, Muslet intertwines his fingers. "We and the Jews live like...
...Matt Rees. With reporting by Aharon Klein and Jamil Hamad/Jerusalem
...Middle East ricocheted last week from dreams of peace to the possibility of renewed--and perhaps even more widespread--violence, TIME asked a number of people living amid the turmoil to keep daily diaries. The reports--gathered by TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees and Jerusalem reporters Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein--tell the tale of people struggling to adjust in the face of a collapsing world. Some greet the new chaos with resignation, others with a fervent, steely passion to win what they feel their people deserve. All the entries are tinged with sadness. The week began with...
Jaffar, 29, a Hamas field leader, spoke to TIME correspondent Jamil Hamad about what it was like to participate in the street fights in Hebron last week...